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David E. Hanlon Ralph Orcutt Edmund X. Klipa (Possible Contact by the Senate Select Committee Staff)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-09-29 · 515 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.

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2 July 1915
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
SUBJECT : Internal Revenue Service Interview of
Former Office of Security Employee
1. Special Agent Rourke of the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) contacted Mr. Edward Stewart in San Francisco on
Saturday afternoon, 28 June 1975. Mr. Stewart had been advised
by the Chief of Operations (PSI) to anticipate this visit byAgent Rourke and to protect any classified information, as
well as cover when he was talking to Agent Rourke. He was
further advised that none of our people's names except McCahe
and Geraty had been mentioned and it was suggested to Mr. Stewart
that he not mention any others if he could avoid it. He was
also advised that Agent Rourke had been given the name of
Mr. Leonard as an IRS employee who had provided IRS information.
2. On 1 July 1975 the Special Agent in Charge of the
San Francisco Field Office, Mr. Walt Richardson, advised
that he had had e lengthy discussion with Mr. Stewart this
date and outlined the following information about the interview
conducted by Agent Rourke and his fellow female agent on
Saturday, 28 June. After placing Mr. Stewart under oath, the
Special Agents consumed about 5 minutes discussing the infor-
mation provided to Mr. Stewart by Mr. Leonard and he asked how
it was done and why it wasn't done through the established
fomal process. Mr. Stewart reportedly told him that he was
an investigator in the field and he had simply set up the
contact with Mr. Leonard and was provided the information byshowing his official identification. Mr. Stewart told Agent
Rourke that he was not aware of any formal process for requesting
this information and he thought that maybe Mr. Leonard was not
aware either.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 515 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.